Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ New Russian soldiers are still being given inadequate training to fight on the front lines in Ukraine and Kursk, according to Russian milbloggers. As one puts it, they are "unprepared, untrained people who are required to perform tasks almost like special forces". ⬇️

2/ The 'DShRG Rusich' Telegram channel says that the "stripes" (officers) "seriously think that 15 days of training is enough to train a stormtrooper, who will not only complete the task, but also return alive."

3/ "Although the latter, most likely, is of little importance to them – the main thing is to submit a report on time and draw an arrow on a piece of paper.

4/ "In essence, to prepare a fighter, a minimum of 300 hours of fire training is required: individual, in a group and with tactical input. 50 hours of engineering and sapper (mine and demolition) training.

5/ "At least 40 hours of medicine, 250 hours of tactics and at least 100 hours of tactical and special training, which also includes communications, etc., etc.

At the same time, the stripes really don't like it when a simple sergeant tells them about this.

6/ "And they cannot even provide a place for training (a training ground) for the required time in a samurai operation [sic].

And when a sergeant tells them this, they think that shoulder straps and big stars make them smarter than him.

7/ "Although the sergeant's experience in just one month in any of the conflicts is more than 90% of them have in their entire lives.

And this is what we have: unprepared, untrained people who are required to perform tasks almost like special forces."

8/ The author comments that the Russian army is likely to fall apart as soon as the war is over and soldiers are once again allowed to leave the military. "[It] will again become incapable of combat."

9/ "Because none of the people with combat experience will want to stay there after being allowed to resign, especially considering the peacetime salaries. And in a year the army will return to the model before the samurai military operation [sic]."

10/ In a similar vein, 'RostislavDDD' has been speaking with contract soldiers and comments that they "hate the army, in fact, all of them were going to quit at the end of the war."

11/ They also told him of the inadequacy of their training.

"The guys' assessment of the quality of their training is unsatisfactory."

12/ "Even de jure, they teach exclusively within the framework of a specialisation that has been cut to meaninglessness and is unequivocally crap by the standards of people with a degree, with no goal of teaching anything in principle.

13/ "All the work is for a photo report [i.e. for show]. The officers do not want to work, real training of personnel is more or less present only when working with equipment at the training ground. Perhaps thanks to the contract soldiers (they did not specify).

14/ "The rest of the time, the platoon is locked in a classroom, where it rewrites the chapters assigned for study in notebooks. Before the class is over, an officer appears, taking a series of shots with a smartphone for a photo report."

15/ (See the thread below for a discussion of photo reports and the damaging effect they have on the Russian military.)

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1570169288849326082

16/ "They shot several times, several rounds per snout, and no skills or knowledge were retained. Nobody knows how to survive in Kursk, where they were promised to be sent after graduation.

17/ "Before firing, they were smothered with theory according to the above scenario, the training material base was not used, but they were pressurised especially hard by photo-control [remote inspections]." /end

Sources:
🔹 t.me/dshrg2/2371
🔹 t.me/RostislavDDD/1…